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Update date: Jan. 11, 2021
Akashi Hiroshi
Akashi Hiroshi
Affiliation and department：
Job title：
Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
Homepage URL (2)：
http://www.nig.ac.jp/labs/EvoGen/
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https://www.nig.ac.jp/nig/research/organization-top/organization/akashi
Research field (1)：
Evolutionary biology
Research keywords (4)：
weak selection
, codon usage
, molecular evolution
, population genetics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
- 2003 - 2008 Translational selection and Drosophila genome evolution
- 1996 - 1998 Natural Selection
Papers (28)：
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Tomotaka Matsumoto, Hiroshi Akashi. Distinguishing among evolutionary forces acting on Genome-Wide base composition: Computer simulation analysis of approximate methods for inferring site frequency spectra of derived mutations. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2018. 8. 5. 1755-1769
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Tomotaka Matsumoto, Anoop John, Pablo Baeza-Centurion, Boyang Li, Hiroshi Akashi. Codon Usage Selection Can Bias Estimation of the Fraction of Adaptive Amino Acid Fixations. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2016. 33. 6. 1580-1589
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Tomotaka Matsumoto, Hiroshi Akashi, Ziheng Yang. Evaluation of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Methods to Infer Nonstationary Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution. GENETICS. 2015. 200. 3. 873-+
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Saurav Mallik, Hiroshi Akashi, Sudip Kundu. Assembly constraints drive co-evolution among ribosomal constituents. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2015. 43. 11. 5352-5363
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Hiroshi Akashi, Naoki Osada, Tomoko Ohta. Weak Selection and Protein Evolution. GENETICS. 2012. 192. 1. 15-U43
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Books (2)：
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Urban Resilience A Transformative Approach Y. Yamagata & H. Maruyama (Eds.), Chapter 10 Disease Outbreaks: Critical Biological Factors
Springer 2016
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Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology 1st Edition
Academic Press 2016 ISBN:012800049X
Lectures and oral presentations (14)：
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Population genomics of weak selection and lineage specific evolution in Drosophila
(International Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 2018)
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A new approach to estimate site frequency spectrum: application to infer evolutionary forces on base composition in Drosophila genomes
(Symposium on Evolutionary Genetics and Omics, Mishima, Japan 2018)
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Approximate method for inferring site frequency spectra of polymorphism in recombining regions
(Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2018, Yokohama, Japan 2018)
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’Hitchhiking’ and adaptive protein evolution: Why do fast-evolving proteins show reduced codon usage bias in Drosophila
(International Symposium of Evolution of Genes and Genomes, Chengdu, China 2018)
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’Hitchhiking’ and adaptive protein evolution: Why do fast-evolving proteins show reduced codon usage bias in Drosophila
(The 1st AsiaEvo Conference, Shenzhen, China 2018)
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Education (2)：
- 1985 - 1990 Harvard College Biology
- University of Chicago Ecology and Evolution MS/PhD
Professional career (2)：
- PhD (University of Chicago, USA)
- BA (Harvard University, USA)
Work history (6)：
- 2009/01 - 現在 National Institute of Genetics Department of Population Genetics Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
- 2006/07 - 2008/12 Penn State University Department of Biology Associate Professor
- 2000/08 - 2006/06 Penn State University Department of Biology Assistant Professor
- 1998/08 - 2000/07 University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor
- 1996/09 - 1998/08 University of California, Davis Section of Evolution and Ecology Visiting Scholar
- 1996/02 - 1996/08 University of California, Davis Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
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Committee career (4)：
- 2020/01 - 現在 Genes & Genetic Systems Editorial Board
- 2018/02 - 現在 PCI Evolutionary Biology Recommender
- 2010/07 - 現在 BMC Genomics Associate Editor
- 2004/01 - 現在 Faculty of 1000 Biology Contributing Faculty Member for
Awards (4)：
- 1998/06 - American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Award
- 1996/09 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award in Molecular Studies of Evolution
- 1996/01 - University of Chicago Departmental Award for Outstanding Performance in the General Field of Ecology and Evolution
- 1990/01 - Harvard College magna cum laude with highest honors in the Department of Biology
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